Endangered Species
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Endangered Cottontail Rabbits?
Drown me! Roast me! Hang me! Do whatever you please,” said Brer Rabbit. “Only please, Brer Fox, please don’t throw me into yonder briar patch.” –Brer Rabbit to Brer Fox…
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Endangered Spotted Owl Update
The northern spotted owl, emblem of the Pacific Northwest’s old-growth forests, dodged a bullet last week when Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar opted to scale back on old-growth-forest logging…
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More On Invasive Species
In yesterday’s wildlife news, our topic was about how the up to 100,000 Burmese pythons slithering through Florida’s Everglades provided a dramatic example of the dangers of releasing non-native animals…
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Inbreeding Threatens Siberian Tigers
A team of researchers led by scientists from the University of British Columbia reports that the endangered Amur Tigers or Siberian tigers face an even tougher fight for survival than…
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